Will FX-6300 bottleneck with R9 285?

[deathstreike125720]

Hi, I would like to know if my FX-6300(3.5ghz) would bottleneck with an R9 285, R9 280x, or R9 290. I currently am using an R9 270x

 

[sammy sung]

The R9-270X mayyybe a little, but probably not a noticeable amount. Whereas the rest of those will be held back a touch or so. The FX-6300 still has a bit of life in it, but I wouldn't really like it for gaming at higher levels. But you can overclock it to like 4.8 GHz or greater

 

[IInuyasha74]

The R9 290 and R9 290x would be bottlenecked. The R9 280x maybe a little, but the R9 280 and R9 285 should be fine with the FX-6300. Overclock will help but its not necessary.

If you feel like its starting to have bad issues go buy an FX 8320 or FX 8320E. Make sure it works with your motherboard first, but I still doubt you will have too much issue. Another user had a Phenom II x4 at 3.33Ghz and a Nvidia GTX 760 the other day, the GTX 760 is close to an R9 280, and the Phenom II x4 is quite a bit slower than the FX 6300. He had bottleneck, but it wasn't extreme. Based off that you should be fine.

 

[Computer LVR]

this really depends on the games you are playing for example a cpu heavy game like skyrim will be more bottlenecked by the processor vs a game like crysis which is more gpu intensive it all depends on the game there is a good game that jayz2cents made about bottlenecks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAgpvWc4VBM
also if you are planning on upgrapding your gpu then you shold wait for the r9 300 series or gtx 900 series they are just around the corner and since its a new architecture you will get more of a performance boost than upgrading from the current cards

 

[deathstreike125720]

prob gonna be upgrading to r9 290 and fx 8320 when the parts go on sale (or when ever i see a good deal), but most likely im going to wait for a price drop in the 290 (or buy it used). Thanks for the help guys

 

[IInuyasha74]

prob gonna be upgrading to r9 290 and fx 8320 when the parts go on sale (or when ever i see a good deal), but most likely im going to wait for a price drop in the 290 (or buy it used). Thanks for the help guys

Like I said double check make sure your motherboard supports an FX 8320, not all of them do. If it has only 4-phases chances are it doesn't.
For price drops, that should be coming a little, The new GTX 900 is coming that will drop price from competition. Will happen again with the R9 300 series comes, but I'm not sure how low it will drop in the long run cause its a really large GPU die so its costly to make compared to most.

 

[deathstreike125720]

I have an ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS, pretty sure it'll support fx 8320 (according to pcpartpicker) please correct me if im wrong

 

[IInuyasha74]

Yes it does support it, however it only has a 4+1 phase power design, so heat could build up an cause performance drops. Given that, I would highly advise you get either the FX 8320E or the FX 8370E since they use less power, that will help to avoid problems.

 

[deathstreike125720]

Yeah i'll get the 8320E